Mougins, France…Pablo Ruiz Picasso, 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973.

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

“I do not seek. I find.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”